823–6

Conversation No. 823-6

Date: December 14, 1972
Time: 11:55 am - 12:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Manolo Sanchez.

Paperwork
-Private file
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Gift Office
-Logging
-Rose Mary Woods
-Letter

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:01 pm.

1973 Inauguration
-Medal
- -Modernity
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Picture
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)


The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John C. Stennis
-Forthcoming meetings
-Senators
-Carl B. Albert
-Stennis
-James R. Schlesinger
-Relationship
-Possible meeting

Second term reorganization
-Richard M. Helms
-Ambassadorship to Iran
-Helms’s conversation with Haldeman
-The President’s conversation with Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
and Henry A. Kissinger
-Persian Gulf
-Oil
-Kissinger’s conversation with Helms
-Helms’s value
-Helms’s possible conversation with Jackson
-The President’s conversation with Jackson

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Stennis
-Schlesinger’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:55 am.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Hugh Scott
-Delay
-Briefing
-Residence
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Timing
-John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:01 pm.
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)


Second term reorganization
-Stennis
-Meeting with Schlesinger
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Schlesinger
-Helms
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Stennis
-Outside
-Compared to promotion from within
-Reaction
-Changes
-Promotion from within
-Stennis

Haldeman’s schedule

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 12:01 pm and 12:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 823-6A]

[See Conversation No. 34-72]

[End of telephone conversation]

Second term reorganization
-[Julie Nixon Eisenhower]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Efforts
-Conversation with the President
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Haldeman’s role
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Staff cuts
-Mrs. Nixon
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Press relations
-The President’s conversation with Ziegler
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)

-Relationship with the President’s family
-Personality
-Children
-Ziegler’s role
-Conversation and meeting with Ziegler
-Helen Smith
-Mrs. Nixon’s staff
-Retention
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Stuart
-Haldeman’s role
-Marital role
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Timing
-Mrs. Nixon
-Schedule
-Family
-1972 election
-Staff
Lucy A. Winchester
-Smith

The President’s schedule
-December 20, 1972
-Mrs. Nixon

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:04 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Telephone call to Frank L. Rizzo
-Timing
-1972 election
-White House operators

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:32 pm.


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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)

-Physical examination
-Extent
-Compared to Mayo Clinic
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Appointment
-Christmas cards
-Mrs. Nixon
-Volunteers

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Congressional relations
-The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Scott
-Meeting with Congressmen, governors
-William E. Timmons
-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-View
-Frequency of meetings
-Birthdays
-Cards
-Telephone calls
-Jackson
-Stennis
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Clark MacGregor
-1972 campaign

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:04 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Telephone c all to Rizzo
-Timing and duration
-Record

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.

Congressional relations
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)

-Politics
-MacGregor
-Robert J. Dole
-Work with Peter H. Dominick
-White House staff
-Timmons
-Harry S. Dent
-Charles W. Colson
-Press relations
-MacGregor
-Record

Second term reorganization
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Women
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-James C. Fletcher
-Atomic Energy Commission [?]
-Claude S. Brinegar
-NASA
-Oil business
-Armstrong
-Secretary of Transportation
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Politics
-The President’s efforts
-The President’s conversation with Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Armstrong
-White House staff
-Possible title
-Assistant to the President
-Special Assistant to the President
-Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson
-Robert H. Finch
-Possible duties
-Dent
-Republican National Committeemen, governors
-Meetings
-Bicentennial
-Agnew
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)

-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Future
-Ambassadors
-Ages
-Study
-List
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Maurice H. Stans
-William P. Rogers
-Timing
-Size
-Kissinger
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Chief of US delegation to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Under Secretary of Labor
-[Gertrude C. Michelson]
-Peter J. Brennan
-Macy’s
-Labor relations
-New York
-Jewish background
-Colson’s view
-Management
-Ambassadors
-Ages
-Helms
-Departures
-John D. Lodge
-Shelby C. Davis
-Retention
-Flanigan
-Retention
-Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Departure
-Confirmation
-White House
-George P. Shultz
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-EEC
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)

-William D. Eberle
-Under Secretaryship
-James D. Hodgson
-Politics
-MacGregor, Bryce N. Harlow, Armstrong, [George H. W. Bush], “inside
group”
-Haldeman’s, Ehrlichman’s role
-Leonard Garment
-Dent’s office
-White House interest
-Flanigan
-Possible meeting with the President
-Ambassadors list
-Stans

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Stans
-Delay
-Stans’s conversation with the President
-Ambassadors list
-Stans’s telephone calls to Haldeman
-Stans’s future
-Timing
-Christmas parties
-Diplomatic credentials presentation
-Timing
-Meeting with doctors
-Stans

Stans
-The President’s conversation with Helene (Colesie) Drawn
-Jack Drown
-1962, 1968, 1972 campaigns

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:04 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Scott

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)


Stans
-Relationship with the President
-Helene and Jack Drown
-1972 election
-statement
-Robert J. Dole

Second term reorganization
-John Sherman Cooper
-Possible meeting with the President
-Appointment
-The President’s meeting with Jackson
-Meeting with the President in Kentucky
-Ambassadorship to Egypt
-Article
-Cooper’s age
-The President’s meeting with Jackson
-Congressional relations
-“Doves”
-“Loyalty”
-Appointment
-[Pope Paul VI] Giovanni Battista Motini
-John A. Volpe
-Arms control
-Congressional relations
-Votes

White House social affairs
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Introductions
-White House staff
-Compared to military aide
-Military aide
-Ambassadors
-Church services
-Example
-Jacksonville
-State dinners
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)

-MacGregor
-Compared to Stans
-Reception for administration officials from California
-Blair House
-White House
-Finch’s action
-The President’s conversation with Helene Drown
-Hosts

Finch

Second term organization
-Rumsefeld
-Article
-Ambassadorship to North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]


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Fundraising
-The President’s efforts
-Rumsfeld
-Chicago
-Dole
-Kansas
-Finch
-California

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Second term reorganization
-Rumsfeld
-Ambassadorship to NATO
-Article
-Value
-Politics
-Ambassadors list
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Conversation No. 823-6 (cont’d)

-The President’s schedule
-Flanigan
-Under Secretaries
-Under Secretary of Labor
-Michelson
-Colson
-Brennan
-Brinegar

Haldeman left at 12:30 pm.